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Is it possible to use table.insert with a key that's a string rather than just an integer?
Recently I've found out that you can make keys strings, which is super helpful for a lot of things, as well as super-readable, however, table.insert doesn't seem to like strings, and only works with integers.
Example:
-- Throws an error table.insert(table, "key", variable) -- Works fine table.insert(table, 1, variable)
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You can just index the table, it's faster and better
table["key"] = variable -- Supports all data and userdata table[workspace] = variable table["key"] -- variable table[workspace] -- variable
There is no way to do that with table.insert if i am right, i probably am.
table.remove also only supports integers so you can use same tactic to remove elements from the table
table["key"] = nil
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So we assume that table["key"] is another table, since im inserting into it, and it has pre-existing data so = doesn't work, I solved this by doing table.insert(table["key"], variable), sorry I didn't make that obvious. However since I've got it solved, I'll mark this as correct, thank you. SpelunkyGaming 34 — 3y